Less than half of men in a high-risk South African township knew whether their partners had ever been tested for HIV, and women weren't much more informed, according to a survey of heterosexual couples.

WHO fact sheet N°360. Updated July 2015.

HIV can be flushed out of its hiding places in the body using a cancer drug, researchers show.

The United Nations has suspended health programmes reaching a million people across Iraq because of massive under-funding, it said on Monday.

Administration officials are headed to Atlanta Thursday to take the wraps off the next stage of President Obama's 10-year plan to treat and prevent HIV in the United States.

Kenya will be getting new support to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS among adolescent girls. President Obama announced Sunday that Kenya would be included in the DREAMS project. It’s funded by the U.S., the Nike Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Researchers say early treatment can reduce its transmission by up to 93 percent. The Brazilian government has launched a program to offer free early treatment for people who have been exposed to HIV, the deadly virus that currently affects over 35 million people worldwide.

A cluster randomised trial in Ukraine has shown that a peer education project reduced new HIV infections in people who inject drugs by 41%. Working with individuals who had an exceptionally high risk of HIV (each year one in three became HIV positive), the intervention is thought to have worked...

India's fight against AIDS is being jeopardized by a cut in social spending by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, with health workers being laid off and programmes to prevent the spread of the deadly disease curtailed.

On 14 July UNAids released its report, How Aids Has Changed Everything.

More than 6,500 deaths have been reported in the Donbass region, where Ukrainian forces have battled Russian-supported separatist fighters for control since April 2014. The political violence has led to a humanitarian crisis. More than 8,000 patients being treated for H.I.V. or drug dependence...

Analysis by UNAids and Lancet Commission highlights ‘fragile window of opportunity’ to maintain progress on curbing deaths and infections.